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Speciesassociated differences in foliageroot coupling soilreinforcement and antierosion.

LIU Fu-quan1, LIU Jing1, NAO Min2, YAO Xi-jun1, ZHENG Yong-gang1, LI You-fang1, SU Yu1, WANG Chen-jia1   

  1. (1College of Ecology and Environmental Science, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010019, China; 2Inner Mongolia Bayannur Institute of Forestry, Bayannur 015000, Inner Mongolia, China)
  • Online:2015-02-18 Published:2015-02-18

Abstract: This paper took four kinds of common soil and water conservation plants of the study area, Caragana microphylla, Salix psammophila, Artemisia sphaerocephala and Hippophae rhamnides at ages of 4 as the research object. Thirteen indicators, i.e., single shrub to reduce wind velocity ration, shelterbelt reducing wind velocity ration, community reducing wind velocity ration, taproot tensile strength, representative root constitutive properties, representative root elasticity modulus, lateral root branch tensile strength, accumulative surface area, rootsoil interface sheer strength, interface friction coefficient,   accumulative root length, rootsoil composite cohesive, rootsoil composite equivalent friction angle, reflecting the characteristics of windbreak and roots, were chose to evaluate the differences of foliageroot coupling soilreinforcement and antierosion among four kinds of plants by analytic hierarchy process (AHP) under the condition of spring gale and summer rainstorm, respectively. The results showed the antierosion index of foliageroot coupling was in the sequence of S. psammophila (0.841) > C. microphylla (0.454) > A. sphaerocephala (-0.466) > H. rhamnides (-0.829) in spring gale, and C. microphylla (0.841) > S. psammophila (0.474) > A. sphaerocephala (-0.470) > H. rhamnides (-0.844) in summer rainstorm. S. psammophila could be regarded as one of the most important windbreak and antierosion species, while C. microphylla could be the most valuable soil and water conservation plant for the study area.